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Richard Yates was a ship captain. He was the master of the Lawrence and Jane, by which vessel the London firm of Robert Cary & Company shipped goods to GW in 1759. The ship was reported entering ... Read More

GW hired George Young in January 1774 for a year at an annual salary of £25 to make the improvements on his western landholdings required by law (Diaries, 3:226). Young moved to Mount Vernon from ... Read More

Notley Young (c.1736–1802) was one of the proprietors of the Federal City. The plantation home of Young, located on the banks of the Potomac near the modern intersection of 8th and I streets, S.W., ... Read More